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What collaboration tools do yunity contributors use?

This page is a collection of all tools, including advantages and disadvantages.

Feel free to add content and comments. Please do not delete or modify other peoples contributions without asking.

Sorted approximately by activity and/or number of participants.

References

Decision proposal: https://trello.com/c/QzSukfwO/1-choice-of-collaboration-tools

Work tracking: https://trello.com/c/mISMiYxT/57-assess-currently-used-collaborative-tools-and-competitors

 

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Regularly used

Slack

Tip
titlePro
  • All messages and content saved
  • Well developed with ongoing development
  • Many useful integrations
Warning
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  • Can divert people from open documentation
  • Notifications can be overwhelming
  • Very 'heavy'

Confluence Wiki

Tip
titlePro
 
Warning
titleCon
 

Trello

  • License: Proprietary online service
  • Current usage: (Frequent) Organize short- to long-term tasks
  • Description: Task boards
  • Link: https://trello.com/yunity
Tip
titlePro
  •  Fast access to all tasks because of non chronologic structure
Warning
titleCon
 

Etherpad

  • License: Open source online service
  • Current usage: (Frequent) Taking minutes & temporary co-editing
  • Description: Collaborative editor
  • Link: https://pad.riseup.net/
Tip
titlePro
 
Warning
titleCon
 

GitHub

  • License: Proprietary online service
  • Current usage: (When coding) yunity source code and tasks
  • Description: Source code management
  • Link: https://github.com/yunity/
Tip
titlePro
 
Warning
titleCon
 

Waffle.io

  • License: Proprietary online service
  • Current usage: (Sometimes) Developer task management
  • Description: Task board for GitHub
  • Link: https://waffle.io/yunity/yunity
Tip
titlePro
 
Warning
titleCon
 

Google Docs

  • License: Proprietary online service
  • Current usage: (Frequent) Newsletter, Translation, Specification
  • Description: Word processor
  • Link: https://docs.google.com
Tip
titlePro
  • Very interactive
  • Pretty easy to use
  • Option to change directly or just comment
Warning
titleCon
  • Can get messy very fast if noone accepts or declines suggestions
  • Hard to know when something is really finished

Google Drive 

  • License: Proprietary online service
  • Current usage: (Frequent) Docs and Image storage
  • Description: Cloud storage
  • Link: https://drive.google.com
Tip
titlePro
  •  Free space that's accessible from everywhere
Warning
titleCon
  • Not very organized at the moment
  • Many people don't even know what's all on there

Sometimes used

Doodle

  • License: Proprietary online service
  • Current usage: (Sometimes) Organizing WuppDays participants
  • Description: Scheduling tool
  • Link: http://doodle.com/
Tip
titlePro
 
Warning
titleCon
 

Dudle

Tip
titlePro
 
Warning
titleCon
 

Invision

  • License: Proprietary online service
  • Current usage: (Seldom) UX/UI mockups
  • Description: User experience prototyping
  • Link: http://www.invisionapp.com/
Tip
titlePro
 
Warning
titleCon
 

Jitsi Meet

  • License: Open source online service
  • Current usage: (Sometimes) Video meetings for
  • Description:
  • Link: https://meet.jit.si/
Tip
titlePro
 
Warning
titleCon
 

Skype

  • License: Proprietary software
  • Current usage: (Seldom) PR channel and video meetings
  • Description: Video chat
  • Link:
Tip
titlePro
 
Warning
titleCon
 

Mediawiki

Tip
titlePro
 
Warning
titleCon
 

Proposed tools

Taiga

Tip
titlePro
 
Warning
titleCon
 

Gitlab

  • License: Open source (community version)
  • Current usage: (None)
  • Description: code, test and deploy together
  • Link: https://about.gitlab.com/
Tip
titlePro
 
Warning
titleCon
 

agilefant

Tip
titlePro
 
Warning
titleCon
 

openProject

Tip
titlePro
 
Warning
titleCon
 

  

MeisterMind

  • License:
  • Current usage: yucon
  • Description: collaborative mindmapping + task managment in combination with mindtask (kanban)
  • Link: https://www.mindmeister.com/
Tip
titlePro
 
Warning
titleCon
 

diigo

  • License:
  • Current usage: research
  • Description: helpful tool for research
  • Link: https://www.diigo.com/user/paul_free
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titlePro
 
Warning
titleCon